Market and positioning
Rediflow: Project flow. Portfolio flow. One flow.
Market context and Rediflow’s positioning — for directors, managers, and system administrators evaluating or deploying portfolio and capacity planning.
Market context
The global project–portfolio and demand–capacity planning market was valued at $5–8 billion in 2024, growing 10–15% per year toward an estimated $10–13 billion by 2030.
Vendor landscape
- Top-tier vendors (ServiceNow, Microsoft, Oracle, Planview) command more than $10 billion. Broad enterprise suites, strong integration — often high cost and complexity.
- SaaS specialists (Smartsheet, Monday.com, Asana, ClickUp) sit in the $200–800 million range each. Collaboration and task management; varying support for portfolio-level capacity.
- Open-source and EU-hosted options — smaller segment, growing fast where data sovereignty and vendor independence matter.
Fastest-growing segments
- Managed services — Hosting and operations so organisations focus on planning, not infrastructure.
- Premium support — SLA-backed support, onboarding, professional services.
- AI-driven capacity forecasting — Predictive analytics for demand–capacity gaps and resource decisions.
Rediflow’s positioning
Open-source platform for public-sector portfolio and capacity planning. You host it yourself.
Deployment model
- Self-hosted — Run on your servers or cloud. Podman and Docker — standard container stack. See Deployment overview, Run with Podman or Docker, Deploy QA and production.
Core differentiators
| Differentiator | What it means |
|---|---|
| EU data sovereignty | You choose where to host. Deploy in the EU; keep data in the EU. No dependency on US or other non-EU clouds. Critical for public sector, healthcare, and regulated industries. |
| Open source | Transparent codebase. No vendor lock-in. Self-host on your infrastructure. |
| Single source of truth | One place for project flow, portfolio flow, and capacity. No Excel sprawl. |
| Mature operations | Migrations, audit logs, data quality checks, and backups — built in. |
Target audience
- Public-sector organisations — Ministries, agencies, research institutes, universities.
- R&D and project portfolios — Multiple projects with shared capacity.
- Organisations with visibility challenges — Scattered data, unclear capacity, staff unsure who’s doing what.
- Business-IT — Deploy, configure, and maintain on your infrastructure.
- EU compliance requirements — GDPR, sector-specific regulations, data residency.
How Rediflow fits
Rediflow doesn’t compete head-on with the largest enterprise suites. It targets organisations that:
- Need portfolio and capacity planning without the cost and complexity of ServiceNow or Planview.
- Require EU data sovereignty and control over where data lives.
- Prefer open source for transparency, auditability, and long-term independence.
- Want a focused tool for project flow, portfolio flow, and capacity — not a generic task manager.
Future directions
Customers host the service themselves today. To capture more of the market, Rediflow could expand along three axes:
- Managed-service offering — EU-hosted deployment and operations so customers focus on planning (not currently available).
- Premium support — SLA-backed support, onboarding, professional services (not currently available).
- AI-driven capacity forecasting — Predictive analytics for demand–capacity gaps (planned).
These areas are growing fastest. EU data sovereignty is a strong differentiator: organisations that can’t or won’t use US-hosted AI could choose Rediflow with EU-hosted, sovereign AI.
Next steps
- Business case — The proposal from your perspective: the challenge, what Rediflow offers, and estimated impact.
- Overview — What Rediflow is and how to get started.
- Key features — Screenshots of key features with fictional data.